.TH TMPNAM 1
.SH NAME
tmpnam \- make a file in the temporary directory
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tmpnam
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Tmpnam
creates a new file with a unique name in directory
.F /tmp
and places the full pathname on the standard output.
.SH EXAMPLES
.EX
tmp1=`tmpnam` tmp2=`tmpnam`
trap 'rm tmp1 tmp2; exit' 0 1 2 3 13 15
sort file1 >tmp1; sort file2 >tmp2
join tmp1 tmp2
.EE
Notice that the classical trick for getting unique names,
.LR "sort file1 >/tmp/$$a; sort file2 >/tmp/$$b" ,
does not work when
.F /tmp
is a blind directory.
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR mkunique (3)